Coming from creator Philip Levens, who wrote several fan-favorite episodes in Smallville’s early years, Ascension is a new miniseries premiering at 9PM (ET) tonight on Syfy. The series includes some familiar faces like Tricia Helfer and Bobby Cobb Brian Van Holt.
Here’s how Syfy describes it:
Ascension is an original drama set in 1963, following a covert U.S. space mission that sent hundreds of men, women and children on a century-long voyage aboard the starship Ascension to populate a new world. Nearly 50 years into the journey, as they approach the point of no return, the mysterious murder of a young woman causes the ship’s population to question the true nature of their mission.
Rounding out the Ascension cast are Brandon P. Bell (“Hollywood Heights”) as the confident and capable First Officer Oren Gault, Brian Van Holt (“Cougar Town,” “The Bridge”) as the eponymous ship’s Captain William Denniger, and Tricia Helfer (“Battlestar Galactica”) as Viondra Denniger, the captain’s beautiful, manipulative and dangerous wife (who also serves as the ship’s Chief Steward). Joining Bell, Van Holt and Helfer are Tiffany Lonsdale as Chief Astronomer Emily Vanderhaus, Andrea Roth as the ship’s head doctor Juliet Bryce, Jacqueline Byers as her daughter, Nora Bryce, and P.J. Boudousqué as Nora’s love interest, James Toback.
Here are some promotional photos from the show in general as well as the show’s first installment, which airs on December 15.
